Mumbai: Union Minister Narayan RaneComment on ‘slapping’ Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray have not gone down well Shiv Sena staff.
An FIR has been registered against Rane in Pune following a complaint Yuva Sena – Shiv Sena’s youth wing – For using objectionable language against the CM.
Rane made this statement for what he claimed as Thackeray’s ignorance about the year of India’s independence.
There is speculation that Rane may be arrested for his remarks against the chief minister. Some reports said that a Nashik police team has left for Chiplun in the Konkan region, where Rane is presently present, following a complaint against the Union minister over the remarks. There is no information from the police on these developments yet.
“It is shameful that the Chief Minister does not know the year of independence. He leaned back during his speech to ask about the counting of the years of independence. “If I was there, I would have given him a slap,” Rane said during his Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Raigad district on Monday.
The BJP leader and former Shiv Sena chief minister claimed that Thackeray forgot the year of independence while addressing the people of the state on August 15. Rane said Thackeray was supposed to see the year of independence along with his colleagues midway through the speech that day.
Rane’s remarks drew sharp reactions from the Shiv Sena, with its activists putting up several posters in Mumbai and other places, calling him a ‘kombadi chor’ (chicken theft), during his initial tenure in Chembur five decades ago. There was a reference to the chicken shop that was run. With the party led by Bal Thackeray.
Shiv Sena’s Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg MP Vinayak Raut said Rane has lost his mental balance.
“To influence the BJP leadership, Rane is attacking Shiv Sena and its leaders. He lost his mental balance after joining the Modi-led ministry. Modi should show them the door,” Raut said.
Rane began his political career in Mumbai in the late 1960s with the Bal Thackeray-led Mitti Ke Son Party. He entered the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1990 as a Shiv Sena MLA.
In February 1999 when he took oath as the 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra. That tenure was short as the then Shiv Sena-BJP alliance lost the state assembly elections held later that year.
In 2005, Rane broke away from Shiv Sena after irreconcilable differences with Thackeray.
After leaving Shiv Sena, he joined Congress and was made the revenue minister of the state. He quit the Congress in 2017 saying that he had joined it in six months on the assurance of coming to the top position in the state.
He founded the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha with his two sons Nilesh and Nitesh as his chief generals, but later merged it with the BJP.
Over the years, Rane’s rivals have linked him to several incidents of violence, claiming to be the murder of an army worker in Konkan’s Sindhudurg district and some other crimes.
— PTI. with inputs from
Watch Alleged ‘slap CM’ remark: Nashik Police issues arrest order against Union Minister Narayan Rane
An FIR has been registered against Rane in Pune following a complaint Yuva Sena – Shiv Sena’s youth wing – For using objectionable language against the CM.
Rane made this statement for what he claimed as Thackeray’s ignorance about the year of India’s independence.
There is speculation that Rane may be arrested for his remarks against the chief minister. Some reports said that a Nashik police team has left for Chiplun in the Konkan region, where Rane is presently present, following a complaint against the Union minister over the remarks. There is no information from the police on these developments yet.
“It is shameful that the Chief Minister does not know the year of independence. He leaned back during his speech to ask about the counting of the years of independence. “If I was there, I would have given him a slap,” Rane said during his Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Raigad district on Monday.
The BJP leader and former Shiv Sena chief minister claimed that Thackeray forgot the year of independence while addressing the people of the state on August 15. Rane said Thackeray was supposed to see the year of independence along with his colleagues midway through the speech that day.
Rane’s remarks drew sharp reactions from the Shiv Sena, with its activists putting up several posters in Mumbai and other places, calling him a ‘kombadi chor’ (chicken theft), during his initial tenure in Chembur five decades ago. There was a reference to the chicken shop that was run. With the party led by Bal Thackeray.
Shiv Sena’s Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg MP Vinayak Raut said Rane has lost his mental balance.
“To influence the BJP leadership, Rane is attacking Shiv Sena and its leaders. He lost his mental balance after joining the Modi-led ministry. Modi should show them the door,” Raut said.
Rane began his political career in Mumbai in the late 1960s with the Bal Thackeray-led Mitti Ke Son Party. He entered the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in 1990 as a Shiv Sena MLA.
In February 1999 when he took oath as the 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra. That tenure was short as the then Shiv Sena-BJP alliance lost the state assembly elections held later that year.
In 2005, Rane broke away from Shiv Sena after irreconcilable differences with Thackeray.
After leaving Shiv Sena, he joined Congress and was made the revenue minister of the state. He quit the Congress in 2017 saying that he had joined it in six months on the assurance of coming to the top position in the state.
He founded the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha with his two sons Nilesh and Nitesh as his chief generals, but later merged it with the BJP.
Over the years, Rane’s rivals have linked him to several incidents of violence, claiming to be the murder of an army worker in Konkan’s Sindhudurg district and some other crimes.
— PTI. with inputs from
Watch Alleged ‘slap CM’ remark: Nashik Police issues arrest order against Union Minister Narayan Rane
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